Problems compiling because of l3benchmark SOLVED (using VSCode)

[frbernardo]

Hello,
Not really sure if this was a problem with my installation of the required packages or not, but posting here nonetheless, may help some people.
Downloaded the latest version of NOVAThesis hoping to start work on my PhD writing.
Downloaded VSCode and followed this video instructions for Latex installation: https://youtu.be/4lyHIQl4VM8?si=sz0UbodxRCVMU-za
Finished installation and when compiling the first time got an error saying " ! LaTeX Error: File `l3benchmark.sty' not found. " because of the file "fix-profiling.sty" (inside the NOVAthesisFils folder) requiring the l3benchmark package.
With the help of google searching and Gemini, I understood that the l3benchmark file comes with the l3experimental package, that can be installed via MikTex or directly downloaded from 'https://ctan.org/pkg/l3experimental'.
However it appears to me that l3experimental no longer contains l3benchmark inside it, and for all I searched online, I could not find l3benchmark.
My solution was to ask a friend to send me the l3benchmark file (he had it installed for a while), and I placed it inside the NOVAthesis folder and it compiled successfully.
Hope this helps someone else!

[joaomlourenco]

Hi @frbernardo,

Thank you for your report and contribution. It seems that the l3benchmark package is not available anymore. I believe its contents were recently integrated into the LaTeX3 core.

May I ask you to simply comment the inclusion of the l3benchmark.sty file in the fix-profiling.sty file and recompile! Does it work for you?

Thank you.

[frbernardo]

I di dtry that it didn't work because 'template.tex' also calls for a lot of l3benchmark as '\benchmarktic' and several 'benchmarktoc'.
I was thinking of also commenting these out, but then remembered to ask my friend sitting next to me to send me his l3benchmark file and it worked fine.
Also I thought that maybe a lot more .tex files would call for l3benchmark, so I didn't bother.

[joaomlourenco]

Ok. Thanks for your help.

Definitely, I'll turn those off in the next version, as they are of no use to the generic user.

[EF0Costa]

Hi, @frbernardo.
I have the same issue, can you send me l3benchmark file?
Best regards.

[joaomlourenco]

Use the newest version of the template. It should (finally) be ok.